avarice
21avarice — noun the job had become less about integrity and more about avarice Syn: greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, mercenariness; rare pleonexia; informal money grubbing, affluenza See note at greedy Ant:… …
22avarice — nf., radinerie : AVARISSA (Albanais, Annecy, Saxel.002B, Villards Thônes), avaressa (Arvillard) ; piratri (002A). A1) se faire remarquer pour son avarice : se fâre à kounyétre <se faire à connaître> (002) …
23avarice — [13] The Latin verb avēre meant ‘covet’. One of its derivatives was the adjective avārus ‘greedy’, from which the noun avāritia was formed. This entered English via Old French avarice. Another of its derivatives was the adjective avidus ‘greedy’… …
24Avarice (disambiguation) — *Avarice is one of the seven deadly sinsFor similar sounding words see *Avaris, a place in ancient Egypt *James Averis, an English cricket player *John Averis, a firefighter who died on 2 November 2007 fighting a fire at Atherstone on Stour in… …
25avarice — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus avaricious, from avēre to crave more at avid Date: 14th century excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain ; greediness, cupidity …
26avarice — /av euhr is/, n. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. [1250 1300; ME < OF < L avaritia, equiv. to avar(us) greedy + itia ICE] Syn. cupidity. * * * …
27avarice — noun /ˈævəɹɪs/ a) Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. b) Inordinate desire for some supposed good. Syn: avariciousness …
28avarice — Synonyms and related words: acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire, frugality, fury of desire …
29avarice — av|a|rice [ˈævərıs] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: Latin avaritia, from avarus avaricious , from avere to want to have ] formal a desire to have a lot of money that is considered to be too strong = ↑greed >avaricious… …
30avarice — av|a|rice [ ævərıs ] noun uncount FORMAL a strong feeling that you want to have a lot of money and possessions and keep them for yourself: GREED ╾ av|a|ri|cious [ ,ævə rıʃəs ] adjective ╾ av|a|ri|cious|ly [ ,ævə rıʃəsli ] adverb …
